I spent half an hour in an area in our school called the Defender Café, which is a classroom converted to a café for a program the school created for special needs students to serve breakfast and other snacks to students during zero period. It has been set up for about a year now. Special needs students sell snacks and beverages to other students in the school as a way to raise money and to work on their life skills. It's showing that the school cares about helping out those students and giving something enjoyable for the other students. The café itself is setup as a place for kids to eat and hangout in the morning before first period.
There are couches set up in the middle of the room with coffee tables in the middle. All three couches were full of students. To me that meant that students take advantage of the space provided. The students were divided into boys and girls, and the guys talked to the guys while the girls talked to the girls. This could mean that guys would rather rather talk to their guy friends or girls to their girl friends for that morning because maybe those of the other gender wouldn't understand or relate to what they were talking about. Some of either gender were doing homework, while others were socializing, while others were looking at their phones. This shows that there is a good balance of students who are getting their work done, and others may either have their work done or choose not to do it. The coffee table had magazines and newspapers on sitting on it, but nobody ever picked them up. I don’t think many kids look at the newspaper or magazines these days, because you can get news online, and social media almost takes the place of popular magazines. To me this is confirming my beliefs that in the near future printed media will be outdated and irrelevant.
Some groups of students sat around the tables, and basically did the same thing – ate, talked, worked on school, and so on. There was a pretty constant flow of kids coming in and out through the whole morning, until 8:45. At that point there was no new students coming in and about half left, a minute or two before the bell rang. These students left to get their books and things before their first class. One could conclude that these students care about being on time for class either so they can learn, or so they stay out of trouble.
I spent half an hour in an area in our school called the Defender Café, which is a classroom converted to a café for a program the school created for special needs students to serve breakfast and other snacks to students during zero period. It has been set up for about a year now. Special needs students sell snacks and beverages to other students in the school as a way to raise money and to work on their life skills. It's showing that the school cares about helping out those students and giving something enjoyable for the other students. The café itself is setup as a place for kids to eat and hangout in the morning before first period.
There are couches set up in the middle of the room with coffee tables in the middle. All three couches were full of students. To me that meant that students take advantage of the space provided. The students were divided into boys and girls, and the guys talked to the guys while the girls talked to the girls. This could mean that guys would rather rather talk to their guy friends or girls to their girl friends for that morning because maybe those of the other gender wouldn't understand or relate to what they were talking about. Some of either gender were doing homework, while others were socializing, while others were looking at their phones. This shows that there is a good balance of students who are getting their work done, and others may either have their work done or choose not to do it. The coffee table had magazines and newspapers on sitting on it, but nobody ever picked them up. I don’t think many kids look at the newspaper or magazines these days, because you can get news online, and social media almost takes the place of popular magazines. To me this is confirming my beliefs that in the near future printed media will be outdated and irrelevant.
Some groups of students sat around the tables, and basically did the same thing – ate, talked, worked on school, and so on. There was a pretty constant flow of kids coming in and out through the whole morning, until 8:45. At that point there was no new students coming in and about half left, a minute or two before the bell rang. These students left to get their books and things before their first class. One could conclude that these students care about being on time for class either so they can learn, or so they stay out of trouble.